We are pleased to announce the publication of the winner of the Orphan Press Book Contest!  The lengthy creative process of bringing this powerful collection of essays to press is complete, and This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began by Joe Bonomo is here now!  Order your copy today.

We are thrilled to announce the winner of The Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest for 2012.   Congratulations to Joe Bonomo  for his manuscript, “This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began.”   The publication date and further details will be announced soon.  Thanks to everyone who submitted to our first contest.  The competition was keen!  We are grateful for your interest and support, and we’re very excited to be on the forefront of the growing and changing field of literary nonfiction.

Congratulations to Joe Bonomo for taking first place in the Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest with his manuscript, “This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began.”  The publication date will be announced later this spring.

Joe Bonomo’s books include Conversations With Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series), AC/DC’s Highway to Hell (33 1/3 Series), Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, Installations (National Poetry Series), and Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band. He teaches in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University, and appears online at No Such Thing As Was (nosuchthingaswas.com)

Congratulations to Eric LeMay, a finalist in the Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest for his manuscript “In Praise of Nothing – Essays, Consolations, Reveries, and Other Prose.”

Eric LeMay lives in Athens, Ohio. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Gastronomica, Poetry Daily, Narrative Magazine, the Best Food Writing series, and other venues. Visit his website at www.ericlemay.org

Congratulations to Priscilla Long, a finalist in the Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest for her manuscript “STONEWORK: GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY.”

Priscilla Long’s science column, Science Frictions, appears every Wednesday on The American Scholar website. She is author of The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. Her poems, stories, and creative nonfictions appear widely and her awards include a national magazine award. For more information please visit www.PriscillaLong.com.

Congratulations to Alex Stein, a finalist in the Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest for his manuscript “The Haiku Interviews – Some Experiments in Autobiography.”

Alex Stein is the author, most recently, of  Made-Up Interviews With Imaginary Artists, and Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms. His forthcoming book is The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi.

 
“It is worth it to try and to keep on trying and to never give up, because that is what life itself does. It is relentless. Nothing daunts it. If it is cut down, burned down, blown down, it will begin in that same moment, by whatever means it can, through whatever medium remains, to grow again.”–from The Haiku Interviews.

Congratulations to Sarah Einstein, a finalist in the Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Contest for her manuscript “Mot–A Memoir.”

Sarah Einstein is a Ph.D candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University and is the managing editor of Brevity, A Journal of Concise Nonfiction.  Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter, Fringe, Whitefish Review, and PANK, and her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and anthologized in Best of the Net 2011.